Round two of the Euroseries Formula Three Championship came from the Laustiz ring in Germany. After the first race of the season the rather surprising championship leader was Stefano Coletti of Prema.
Championship favourite Jules Bianchi of ART got his title challenge off the ground by taking a win in race one.
He started second on the grid behind his rookie teammate Valtteri Bottas and followed the Finn for the first six laps before making his clean move.
Bottas drove a solid race to finish second holding off Jean-Karl Vernay of Signature who put hi under pressure for most of the race, before being forced to settle for the lowest step on the podium.
Brendon Hartley was fourth for Carlin, Sam Bird fifth for Mucke Motorsport, Roberto Merhi sixth for Manor, Henkie Waldschmidt seventh for SG with Christian Vietoris taking eighth, the final point and pole for race two driving for Mucke.
Pre-weekend championship leader Coletti had a race to forget struggling to finish way down in fifteenth place.
In race two, Vietoris used the pole position gained from his eighth place to full effect as he took the win on Sunday morning.
He was followed home by Merhi who sustained race long pressure from Bird as the fought over second place.
Hartley was fourth again, Waldschmidt started on the front row by got swapped at the start and dropped to fifth.
Mika Maki of Signature started last on Saturday and moved up to twelfth in race one, he then took this as his grid slot for race two and made more progress to take sixth place. Adrien Tambay was the third ART to score points this weekend for seventh while Christopher Zanella of Motopark completed the top eighth.
The top three from Saturday all went backwards on Sunday with Bianchi finishing fourteenth, Bottas thirteenth and Vernay twelfth. Former championship leader Coletti finished twenty third and a lap behind Vietoris.
After a pointless weekend Coletti had dropped to sixth in the standings, with Bianchi replacing him at the top. Bianchi moves onto eighteen points and is two clear of Bird who is in second tied on sixteen points with Merhi.
Written: Sun, 31 May 2009 21:11:57
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